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Principal Software Engineer Interview Experience - Los Angeles, California

September 1, 2023
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

One of their core values is "no BS," but they are mostly BS. I went through four different interviews:

  • Recruiter
  • Coding
  • System design
  • Coding again

After the first coding interview, they ghosted me for almost two months. I followed up and learned I had somehow gotten lost in their system. I then went through two more technical interviews and was ghosted again. This time, the response was that they weren't moving forward and would not be providing feedback as to why.

The last coding interview was "hard" in so much as the assignment was to build a Snake game based on spending five minutes observing how an online version of the game works. For all the talk of the exercise intending to be collaborative, the interviewer basically sat silently the entire time.

I'm not sure of any situation where you'd be expected to deduce copying existing software in an hour after spending a few minutes deducing how it works. Like I said, this place is probably all BS.

Questions

Coding: Something with multi-dimensional arrays.

System Design: Designing a system for keeping track of user statuses.

Coding: Observe an online snake game, figure out how it works, and write a working interface for your own snake game.

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